LeBron and Savannah James's Decades-Long Romance Started in High School

LeBron asked Savannah to marry him on New Year's Eve in 2011, per The Independent. He opened up about his decision to propose in a 2012 interview with Oprah Winfrey. "I had been thinking about it, you know, for a while, but it just came to me one day, and I was like, 'This is a part of growth for me,'" he said. "And this is the lady, the woman, I've been with, through all the good and all the bad. She's been there for a long time, and I wanted her to continue to be there with me, so I felt like at that moment it was time."